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Supporters brought flowers, bread and drinks to the drivers, some of whom took off their shirts to bask in the August sun. Organizers from the Solidarity labor union handed out leaflets, and comedians entertained the growing crowd. Using a sound system borrowed from a jazz club, Solidarity leaders turned a flatbed truck into an impromptu stage, from which they denounced the government's failure to remedy the food situation...
...past 160 years, multitudes have lined the banks of the Thames to witness "The Race." For the spectators, this regatta is more than just a sporting event--it is an annual pageant. And instead of freezing in a cold football stadium on a November weekend, they can bask in the warmth of a beautiful summer Sunday afternoon...
...patient regains his mind as suddenly as he lost it. He becomes, for a while, an overage hippie, buying off-beat costumes at the Salvation Army and riding on the back of a motorcycle with his son. Tremont's sister and daughter, who both live near by, bask in this sunny remission; his son Billy, a college dropout, shows up and is equally delighted. After a lifetime spent working at factory jobs he hated, Dad is finally enjoying himself. The only one unhappy about all this is Mom, who fears that her husband of 50 years has become...
...familiar to anyone who has recovered from major surgery. In his first week back at the White House after the attempt on his life, Ronald Reagan puttered around the second-floor bedroom and sitting room. He strolled in the Rose Garden and frequently visited the third-floor solarium to bask in the sunshine and admire the tulips that had bloomed while he was in the hospital. He took penicillin orally to guard against infection of the lung pierced by the would-be assassin's bullet. But that was Reagan's only medication. The President's personal physician...
Like the generations of New Yorkers who moved to California, the snowbirds who followed Julia Tuttle had a vision of Miami as the Promised Land, where everyone was free to bask in the sun--and make money--with no interference from anyone else. But unlike California, Florida remained the Promised Land. The kooks and the high taxes stayed away; citizens of Miami congratulated themselves on finding heaven and keeping it heavenly. Somehow they seemed immune to the problems of the rest of the United States...